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Dodge City and the birth of the wild west / Robert R. Dykstra and Jo Ann Manfra.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dykstra, Robert R., 1930- author.
- Manfra, Jo Ann, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence.
- History.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Dodge City (Kan.)--History--19th century.
- Dodge City (Kan.).
- Frontier and pioneer life--Kansas--Dodge City.
- Violence--Kansas--Dodge City--History--19th century.
- Kansas--Dodge City.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2017]
- Summary:
- Raised on Gunsmoke, Bat Masterson, and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, we know what it means to "get outta Dodge"-to make a hasty escape from a dangerous place, like the Dodge City of Wild West lore. But why, of all the notorious, violent cities of old, did Dodge win this distinction? And what was it like in the real Dodge City? Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: gettin' outta Dodge
- Pioneers
- Year of living dangerously
- Deadly prose
- Case histories
- Circle Dot cowboys
- Dodge City's sensations
- End games
- Contesting Boot Hill
- Epilogue: homicide, moral discourse, cultural identity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780700624751
- 0700624759
- 9780700624768
- 0700624767
- OCLC:
- 984899051
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